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Built 420a Eclipse (98 Eclipse GS turbo)

Built 98 eclipse gs turbo with the 420a on e85.

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I finally got around to removing the full blown rats nest and installing the 3 gauges ill run for awhile. It took me a minute to figure out how I wanted everything ran in this car. It's all fused and routed to where I can figure out an issue if there ever is one. So the interior is finally fully back together, aside from the trunk.

Along with messing around with the interior I did get the engine bay sorted some more. I still haven't figured out my turbo/exhaust setup yet. I really would like to run the exhaust out of the back, for now I shoved a dummy setup back there. I have to have something fill in the giant cutout back there. I'll probably run the bumper setup for awhile and see how it goes.

Things have been moving real slow again. I'm just trying to do everything proper and not rush it. I'm still on the fence about keeping e85 or swapping back to 91. It's all setup for e85 but the car will do more sitting and I don't really want to have to worry about the fuel going bad. I really would love to see how it rips on e85 but I told myself I wouldn't rush anything this time around. I don't even know if I'll be able to test drive the car this summer yet.

I'm also hoping to at least get some power steering back in this thing. It just doesn't feel right having to man it while running. It is nice only having 1 belt which is for the alternator. I just want a little more comfort added.

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It's a shame all these sun roofs rust out. I could see the seal bulging pretty bad so I let each side of the sunroof sit in some rust remover. It took about a week to finally get to where I'm at. I'm pretty happy with the outcome. I wish I could have used some por15 but I didn't have any so we will see how long this lasts. I'm going to try my hand at redoing the sunroof shade as well.

It's these little things that keep me going. I'm going to also try to swap the aluminum pan back to steel so I can run a full exhaust.

Somehow I was able to somewhat attach what I could to the shade. It's not perfect but it will do for now. I'm just trying to keep everything as original with the headliner since it's not sagging at all.

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